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The San Diego Union-Tribune
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Early in the morning of June 5, 1968, during an event at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles marking his victory in the California presidential primary the day before, Robert F. Kennedy was shot three times by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian immigrant with Jordanian citizenship whose diary detailed a hatred for RFK over his strong support for Israel. A day later, Kennedy died from his wounds. It is an open question whether Kennedy would have captured the Democratic nomination at that summer’s convention from Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who led him in Gallup’s final poll before his death. But …